imagecopy

Descrizione

Copy a part of src_im onto
dst_im starting at the x,y coordinates
src_x, src_y with
a width of src_w and a height of
src_h. The portion defined will be copied
onto the x,y coordinates, dst_x and
dst_y.

I have a few remarks om the mirror-function:The cases horizontal and vertical are switched.1 = vertical and 2 = horizontal.When I used it there appeared a black lining of 1 pixel on the side or on the top of the picture.To remove it the function becomes as follows:

I came across the problem of having a page where any image could be uploaded, then I would need to work with it as a true color image with transparency. The problem came with palette images with transparency (e.g. GIF images), the transparent parts changed to black (no matter what color was actually representing transparent) when I used imagecopy to convert the image to true color.

To convert an image to true color with the transparency as well, the following code works (assuming $img is your image resource):

I have created a PHP function which performs the standard 9-Slice scaling technique. This is extremely useful for thumbnail shadow scaling, and anything involving skinning. Feel free to pick apart and use

Note: instead of specifying margins, my 9-slicing routine uses a centered-rectangle concept... as input you provide the image (as a resource), the x and y coords of the rectangle, and the width and height of the rectangle.

The $src_im parameter should be an image resource. This script was written for 9-slicing translucent PNG images, and has only been tested with translucent PNG images, however it should work with other image types (possibly requiring some modification)

so if your source image was 400 x 400, you needed a 24 pixel margin on all sides, and your target size was 800 x 500, you would use the following parameters:

While replying to a post in a support forum I noticed something odd about imagecopy(). The first snippet (should) create an image object, allocate a colour resource within that image, fill the background with the allocated colour and then copy another, cropped to fit, image onto it.

But this produces a black background. I noticed taking away the imagefill() call yields the same results. The solution was to call imagefill() after the imagecopy(). Thinking linearly I would have guessed this to cover the previously copied image in white but it doesn't. I guess GD uses a layer system? Is this correct?

Here is some simple code for resizing an uploaded image and inserting a watermark (from a 24-bit PNG) on the bottom right of it. In this case, the water mark was a diagnol band that said "SOLD" across it. The code that verifies the uploaded image is the correct type has been omitted:

As you probably know 'gif' is a paletted image, that is why if you want to copy one 'gif' onto another 'gif' using ImageCopy you need to create a paletted destination image using (ImageCreate), not ImageCreateTrueColor.

If you are getting an error when using ImageCopy(), be sure that both images are of the same type - either True Color or Palette.GD 1.x can copy images of different types, but with GD 2.0 this will cause an error.

sorry - forgot to fill in my email...Note that ImageCreateFromJPEG always creates a True Color Image.You can use ImageCreateTrueColor() instead of Image Create() to solve this problem.